Kate Garraway has shared her views on former Health Secretary Matt Hancock appearing in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
The broadcaster’s husband Derek Draper, a former political adviser, became seriously ill with Covid-19 in March 2020, suffering lasting damage to his organs and now receives 24-hour care.
Speaking on Thursday’s Good Morning Britain, Garraway, who appeared on 2019’s jungle instalment, was asked by Susanna Reid what her reaction would be if she had been in the camp when Mr Hancock walked in.
The 55-year-old began: “I think instinctively, me personally, would want to talk to him and ask him questions about it and try to get to the bottom of how he thought about it.”
The presenter then continued: “There’s a very visceral gut reaction to Matt Hancock as he’s there as a very famous face of the time that was miserable for the entire country and we’re still living with the consequences of.
“There will be people watching whose grief is still very, very raw from losing people.
“They won’t see that rawness of grief and sadness in the way that Matt Hancock is behaving on screen, because he’s laughing and having fun and trying to get to know a new group of people,” she added.
“I think if they don’t see that, they are going to not feel healed in any way. I kind of wonder if that’s what Matt Hancock’s motive might be – to show people he does care.
“Not just heal his career, but heal a time people are still bleeding from.”
Mr Hancock entered the show on Wednesday alongside comedian Seann Walsh but several of the contestants said they wished they could have quit the show when he entered.
Broadcaster Charlene White wondered why he had come on the show when the Government has been stable “for five minutes” while radio host Chris Moyles said he had “taken a few weeks off his job”.
Boy George revealed that his mum could have died from Covid and he would have walked from the show if that had happened.
Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver commented on the MP’s arrival and said “He sticks out like a sore thumb”.
